SUPREME COURT.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 46, 7 February 1912, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

[bth pfiESS association ] Palmerston North, Feb. 6. At the Supreme Court to-day, before the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout), John Cairns was acquitted on a charge of impersonation ano making a raise statement to the deputy returning officer of a district 111 the Waimanno electorate, A. T. Bo water was charged with a breach of the Bankruptcy Aci for that he did obtain property of the value of £506 15 6 from Abraham and Williams by a false statement of his affairs. Evidence was concluded tonight. Legal argument will take place to-morrow morning. Wellington, Feb. 7. At the Supreme Court to-day the jury failed to agree in the case in which Frederick William Green, late secretary of the Wellington Working Men's Club, was charged with stealing £175 belonging to the club. The case will be retried to-morrow.

The jury also failed to agree concerning the 1 prosecution of William Frederick Jones, charged with forgery. The defence set up was mistaken identity. The case will be taken again during the current sitting of the court. Granvilld- Hunt was sentenced te IS and 12 months’ imprisonment or. two charges of forgery and uttering, the sentences to be concurrent. Timarti, Feb. "•

Ar the Supreme Court only- one criminal case was completed, that against W. Evans, a young man with one leg, who was convicted of housebreaking and thefts at I’ukam and Washdyke. A list of previous convictions for like offences was produced. Judge Denniston sentenced him to five years' hard labour, and declared him to be tin habitual criminal.

A charge of theft of a bicycle against W. N. Clausen, over which the jury disagreed last session, was begun, but was not completed.